(no longer) LOST IN JAPAN

It's cheese... cheese, cheese, CHEESE!

So I'm at dinner on Tuesday at Kichiri, the new isakaya in Yagi. It's a really nice place... modern and classy... great party space... but anyway... The menu is not very foreigner friendly (as in no English/Engrish, no pictures... just super difficult kanji...) but the food was excellent. We ordered a set menu just to make our lives easier and we were not disappointed.
The waitress who was serving us was quite nice. She even tried to speak English (and sign language): "Don't like... food?" (Translation: is there any food that you don't like?)... but the best was when she came out with our main dish. The main course was risotto and it's served in a GIANT (not exagerrating) bowl of CHEESE. The bowl was actually part of a parmasan cheese wheel with the centre emptied out... So she points to it and says: "Delicious. Cheese... This is cheese..." Then she pauses... Thinking about the her next sentence... I think she wanted to tell us about the risotto but all that came out was "Cheese, cheese, cheese!..." Awesome! E for Effort! Seriously. Usually people would just run away but she was so intent on speaking to us in what little English she had. It was lovely.
Two thumbs up for this place if you're ever in the Yagi area.

posted by Samantha @ 9:09 PM